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Pando, a colony of quaking aspen, is one of the oldest-known clonal trees. Recent estimates of its age range up to 14,000 years old, and 18,000 years by the latest (2024) estimate. [1] It is located in Utah, United States. This is a list of the oldest-known trees, as reported in reliable sources. Definitions of what constitutes an individual ...
Prometheus (recorded as WPN-114) was the oldest known non-clonal organism, a Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) tree growing near the tree line on Wheeler Peak in eastern Nevada, United States. The tree, which was at least 4,862 years old and possibly more than 5,000, was cut down in 1964 by a graduate student and United States ...
While it is the largest tree known, the General Sherman Tree is neither the tallest known living tree on Earth (that distinction belongs to Hyperion, a Coast redwood), [8] nor is it the widest (both the largest cypress and largest baobab have a greater diameter), nor is it the oldest known living tree on Earth (that distinction belongs to a Great Basin bristlecone pine). [9]
It's not the tallest or oldest tree in the world today, but it's the largest when measured by volume, at 52,000 cubic feet. ... united in reverence. It’s inspiring to see that for all our ...
Researchers in Chile identify a challenger to the world's oldest tree: an alerce in Alerce Costero National Park that may be over 5,000 years old. California's 'Methuselah' bristlecone pine may no ...
California's oldest tree, a Palmer's oak thought to be 13,000 to 18,000 years old, may be threatened by a proposed development, environmentalists say.
The claim that Methuselah is the oldest known tree is controversial. Methuselah was 4,789 years old when sampled in 1957 [13] by Edmund Schulman and Tom Harlan, [1] with an estimated germination date of 2833 BC. Dendrochronologist Matthew Salzer of the University of Arizona has been unable to reproduce Schulman's age estimate, due to a missing ...
As of 1993, the Senator was estimated to be 3,500 years old, making it the 12th oldest tree in the world. [4] The tree's volume had previously been estimated at 4,300 cubic feet (120 m 3), but a 2006 survey by Will Blozan of the Native Tree Society has measured the volume at well over 5,100 cubic feet (140 m 3), making The Senator not only the largest Bald Cypress in the United States, but ...